Oh yeah, I forgot that the ".44 Magnum" thing came from the mono mix ... I'm willing to overlook it for the other aspects that are (in my opinion) vastly superior. I may look into fixing the blaster sound for my Star Wars edit - it's definitely evolved beyond the point of staying faithful to the mono mix.

And I knew that the six-track mix was for 70mm screenings, I just didn't know if it was considered more or less complete and "final" than the stereo or mono mixes.

Vaderisnothayden said:

Also, it's my impression that there weren't any pre-85 laserdiscs and that 85 was the start of ANH on laserdisc.

This isn't true - the 1977 theatrical stereo is available on one non-time-compressed and several time-compressed laserdiscs. The 1980 theatrical Empire mix is also available on laserdisc (Dark_Jedi recently ripped it and is working on synchronizing it to the GOUT). I have no idea if the Jedi 1983 theatrical mix is available on laserdisc. Or if it was remixed in 1985. Or 1993 for that matter ...